Pith Number

pith:VXF4STHW

pith:2004:VXF4STHWIAD6TQMCMIYCJVGMOT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Kind of Nova

(2) Trinity College, (3) JHU, (4) STSCI, (5) U. C. Berkeley, (6) NOAO, (7) MSSL, (8) Southampton, (9) UCO/Lick Observatory), A. K. H. Kong (1), B. R. Espey (2), C. Brocksopp (7), C. D. Keyes (4), C. R. Kaiser (8), J. Aufdenberg (6), J. L. Sokoloski (1), P. A. Charles (8), R. P. S. Stone (9) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, S. J. Kenyon (1), S. R. McCandliss (3), W. Li (5) A. V. Filippenko (5)

arxiv:astro-ph/0410123 v1 · 2004-10-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXF4STHWIAD6TQMCMIYCJVGMOT}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:13:48.198369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adcbc94cf64007e9c182623024d4cc74c5347981d318267857964f24e05aa18b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0410123 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0410123v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0410123 · pith_short_12: VXF4STHWIAD6 · pith_short_16: VXF4STHWIAD6TQMC · pith_short_8: VXF4STHW

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VXF4STHWIAD6TQMCMIYCJVGMOT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: adcbc94cf64007e9c182623024d4cc74c5347981d318267857964f24e05aa18b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72ffb15e3f1cfb6cbe577aa851c7b53ba3aac3a512225aafcd430e48715b3a1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-05T17:10:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e4c7119b2e6c43b952e57dc617833db671227198d678f1a932e0b1755c12d33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0410123",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}